“In Worldly Girls, home is not found in obedience or containment, but in becoming.” Thank you to author Chanel Sutherland for including Tamara Jong's acclaimed debut memoir in this great recommended reading list for 49th Shelf. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/07...

In Pursuit of a Place Called Home · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

A recommended reading list by the author of the new short story collection Layaway Child (House of Anansi Press).

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"What drives it is my desire to understand what neuroscientists are doing and what they think they are doing, because I am baffled by it." Author Marianne Apostolides talks about her latest book, Go/No-Go, with Justin Karter for Mad in America. www.madinamerica.com/2026/07/mari...

Go/No-Go—How Mental Health Research Took a Wrong Turn: An Interview with Author Marianne Apostolides

Apostolides discusses brain implants, predictive algorithms, cruel experiments, and the metaphors that allow psychiatric researchers to lose sight of the people they hope to help.

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Obsessed with the new Jelly, Baby lyric essays by Therese Estacion (publisher @bookhugpress.bsky.social ) These verses address an aspect of the author’s internalized societal #ableism beautifully; the yearning emotes off the page. #sealeychallenge day 4 #canlit #lyricessay #writingcommunity

The Most Anticipated Fall 2026 Nonfiction Preview is here from @49thshelf.bsky.social and we're delighted to see Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments About Asexuality by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social in such great company! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/07...

Most Anticipated: Our 2026 Fall Nonfiction Preview · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

Nonfiction you'll be falling for in the second half of 2026. 

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Check out Committed to Irony: A Recommended Reading List by Koh-i-Noor author Michael Eddy on @49thshelf.bsky.social, featuring ten great books, including works by fellow Book*hug authors @jacobwren.bsky.social, Oisin Curran, and Alisha Piercy. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/07...

Committed to Irony · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

A recommended reading list by the author of Koh-i-Noor (Book*hug Press).

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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Night Birds by Margaret Sweatman, @gooselane.bsky.social & Event Horizon by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel, @bookhugpress.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton chat with @openbookon.bsky.social about building their new hybrid work of creative nonfiction, Children of Fire: Kurdish Female Fighters and the Struggle for Woman, Life, Freedom, from many profound voices of resistance. tinyurl.com/zkuca27k

Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton on Building CHILDREN OF FIRE from Profound Voices of Resistance

Our featured non-fiction title today, Children of Fire: Kurdish Female Fighters and the Struggle for Woman, Life, Freedom (Book*hug Press), brings ...

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CBC Books names Worldly Girls author @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social one of twenty Canadian authors to watch in 2026! www.cbc.ca/books/20-can...

20 Canadian writers to watch in 2026 | CBC Books

Every year, CBC Books makes of list of writers making their mark on the Canadian literary scene. From romance to nonfiction, these authors are telling fresh and interesting stories.

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CBC Books names Worldly Girls by @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social and Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir by @michaelvsmith.bsky.social two Canadian nonfiction books to read this summer. www.cbc.ca/books/13-can...

“The Tinder Sonnets succeeds because it refuses easy distinctions between the personal and the political in its account of love.” The latest poetry collection by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social is reviewed by Emel Peksöz in Writer’s Block Magazine. writersblockmagazine.com/2026/07/23/b...

Book Review: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove

Dating apps promise abundance: endless profiles and endless chances to begin again. Yet beneath their image of choice and connection lies a more unsettling reality, particularly for women, whose pu…

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"Whatever grew back would not equal what had been lost.” The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social is reviewed by Grace Henkel for the Literary Review of Canada. reviewcanada.substack.com/p/bookworm-n...

Be sure to bookmark our #DisabilityPride reading list for year-round recommendations from @hostpublications.bsky.social, @boa-editions.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @abodepress.bsky.social, @redhenpress.bsky.social, and more indie publishers:

A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed…

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Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton discuss building the new nonfiction title CHILDREN OF FIRE (@bookhugpress.bsky.social) from many profound voices of resistance. Check out our interview with the authors! #AmReading #Nonfiction #History #Women open-book.ca/News/Shahrza...

Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton on Building CHILDREN OF FIRE from Profound Voices of Resistance

Our featured non-fiction title today, Children of Fire: Kurdish Female Fighters and the Struggle for Woman, Life, Freedom (Book*hug Press), brings ...

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My Forests, the acclaimed poetry collection by Hélène Dorion, translated from French by Susanna Lang, and Dead Peasant, the debut short fiction collection from Lisa Baldissera, are included in @quillandquire.bsky.social's Fall 26 Preview for Short Fiction & Poetry. quillandquire.com/omni/2026-fa...

This year, radically optimistic indie publisher @bookhugpress.bsky.social welcomed new books from several returning authors, so we're taking a look back at the titles that first introduced these writers to the press. Read more about each (and their new titles) here: alllitup.ca/press-playba...

☀️It’s time for Book*hug Press’s annual Summer Reads: Author Edition☀️ We have asked our Spring authors to share 3 books they are excited to read this summer! This year we’ve put an additional emphasis on Canadian authors and independent presses 🇨🇦! #summerreads #literature #indiepublishing #canlit

The Comedian's Book of the Dead by @garybarwin.bsky.social and Dead Peasant by Lisa Baldissera are among the many great titles included on the Most Anticipated Fall 2025 Fiction list from @49thshelf.bsky.social. What a great forthcoming season for new fiction!

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It's here! Our Fall 2026 Fiction Preview with titles from @dundurnpress.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/07... #CanLit

"This is an astounding record of a man who is able to survive the throes of growing up in a homophobic world, finding his place in it and, revelling in life as a queer artist." Catherine McNeil on Soundtrack by @michaelvsmith.bsky.social for @thebcreview.bsky.social thebcreview.ca/2026/07/15/2...

Catherine McNeil reviews Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir by Michael V. Smith

Catherine McNeil reviews Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir, by Michael V. Smith (Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2025) $24.95 / 9781771669498

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Koh-i-Noor by Michael Eddy is in great company on this summer fiction reading list from @49thshelf.bsky.social.

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Have you checked out our summer fiction list yet? We've got titles from @dundurnpress.bsky.social @thistledownpress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @greatplainspress.bsky.social @cormorantbooks.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/06... #CanLit

I USED TO BE A PISCES (@bookhugpress.bsky.social) is the first book of poetry from award-winning author Camilla Gibb. Using poetry in tandem with collage, the collection examines our relationships to the earth & to one another. Watch Camilla read from the collection: alllitup.ca/poetry-in-mo...

Congratulation to @christinemcnair.bsky.social! Toxemia is longlisted for the 2026 Warland Award! And it is in such excellent company! Congrats as well to all the longlisted authors and their publishers! warlandaward.ca

Christine's Toxemia (Book*hug Press, 2024) is on the Warland Award 2025 Longlist! congratulations! you should pick up a copy: bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/m... here's my review/essay on the book; robmclennan.substack.com/p/reading-in... cc: @bookhugpress.bsky.social @christinemcnair.bsky.social

Thank you to Melissa Joplin Higley for including Something That Helps by Mona Høvring, tr. from Norwegian by Kari Dickson, in the July edition of the MER Bookshelf for @merliterary.bsky.social Something That Helps will release Oct 6 & is available now for pre-order. merliterary.com/2026/07/12/m...

MER Bookshelf - July 2026 - MER - Mom Egg Review

Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley   Pooja Ugrani, My Home is Dissent, Poetrywala, February 2026, poetry My Home is Dissent is a luminous poetry collection that moves fluidly between the everyday and th...

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you saw this new review of Christine McNair's Toxemia (Book*hug Press, 2024) writ by Frances Boyle, yes? such a good book; @christinemcnair.bsky.social @francesboyle19.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @freefallmagazine.bsky.social ; freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ch...

Review of Christine McNair’s "Toxemia" | FreeFall Magazine

By Frances Boyle Toxemia by Christine McNair Book*Hug (2024) Toxemia, the first work of creative non-fiction by multiple-award-winning poet Christine

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Just WOW. This new hot-off-the-press read, "Jelly, Baby" by the incredible Therese Estacion is gorgeously written. Gripping from the first line. Couldn't put it down. The lyricism is masterful. Do yourself a favour & check it out! #canlit #disability #poet Press: @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Therese Estacion, Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/ther...

Therese Estacion, Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability

Pause. Replay. The amputee walks up the hill in slow motion. Pause. Replay. She does a somersault into the water. Pause, repeat. Pause, repe...

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"People always say we shouldn't have a hierarchy of disability. And I say, well I don't ever want to ignore the fact that there are disabled people that receive more ableism." An Interview with Jelly, Baby author Therese Estacion on Holland-Bloorview's BLOOM blog: hollandbloorview.ca/stories-news...

When a disabled body is new to you

'In the beginning I was so happy to be out in the world and excited to show off my new body. And then I would get all these looks, and it felt so invasive.'

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“Toxemia is an impressive and deeply moving evocation of survival, and of remembering.” @francesboyle19.bsky.social reviews @christinemcnair.bsky.social's "powerful and emotive collection of lyric essays" for @freefallmagazine.bsky.social. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ch...

Review of Christine McNair’s "Toxemia" | FreeFall Magazine

By Frances Boyle Toxemia by Christine McNair Book*Hug (2024) Toxemia, the first work of creative non-fiction by multiple-award-winning poet Christine

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My creative nonfiction/essay book Ace Theory comes out this fall with @bookhugpress.bsky.social and if you preorder now you can get 10% off using the code PREORDER10. bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/f...

Mark Laliberte (MA|) has a new review up on our Substack of @jonathanballcom.bsky.social & @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social's 'THE EYE COLLECTOR' ISSUE 1 from @imagecomics.com Read the review: substack.com/@madecollabo...

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MARK LALIBERTE REVIEWS ‘THE EYE COLLECTOR’ ISSUE 1 … I am currently enjoying the debut issue of @Jonathan Ball’s The Eye Collector — a collaboration with artist GMB Chomichuk, the first of a 12-issue...

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